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Overview

The Report builder is a tool to aid in accessing the Builder menu in Paradigm allows you to extract information stored within the system and extract it in meaningful and useful reports. Each report is custom generate reports designed to meet your institutions data requirements and needsbusiness or institution’s requirements. Reports can be produced in various output formats to meet the institutions requirements. The report builder uses SQL (Structured Query language) however multiple formats (e.g. HTML, CSV, XLS, JSON) to address your reporting needs. Data or information can also be accessed by external software or application via API. To increase the efficiency of some of your processes as a business or institution (e.g. enrol, update information, email communications), this menu will also allow you to generate bulk targeted sets of information depending on your required bulk actions.

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(question) How does Report Builder work?

All data in Paradigm are stored in tables, and the collection of tables (organised and structured) is called a database. Report Builder allows you to extract data from the database and generate the required data for you to make meaning and analysis. Knowing what data or information to extract is key in building a report. Report Builder is built on SQL (Structured Query Language), however, you don’t need to be able to write in SQL to create

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How to generate a report using Report Builder?

(question) How to generate a report using Report Builder?

The first thing to consider when using the Report Builder menu in Paradigm is to identify the needs and requirements of generating the report. The question as to why the report is needed, what are the data or information required to address your business or institution needs……………………

The following are the sections you can see under the Report Builder menu in Paradigm. All the form’s functionalities, fields, and buttons are explained in detail, which will serve as your reference and will set your expectations on what you can and cannot do when you get to the point of following the workflow below on how you can generate your report.

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